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by otalp 8y ago
Which trade union?
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by otalp 8y ago
4k a month is ~50k a year with utilities, which is 50% of post-tax salary if you're earning 120k pre tax.
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by otalp 8y ago
Philosophy Tube is great! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgNt1C72B_4
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by otalp 8y ago
That averages to 330 billion annually...
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by otalp 8y ago
How can Google be sure? They can't, so they can't do it
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by otalp 8y ago
Marx was literally a part of western civilisation.
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by otalp 8y ago
The genocide of native americans, Stalin, Hitler, Churchill starving million in India because he thought them to be less human, the transatlantic slave trade....all just minor blemishes in an otherwise great culture. Perhaps the whole idea
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by otalp 8y ago
What place has no monitor??
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by otalp 8y ago
Or a basic income....
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by otalp 8y ago
That's literally a few hundred people, not the norm
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by otalp 8y ago
But that rent is considered normal in most major cities: NYC, DC, Toronto, Vancouver...
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by otalp 8y ago
> it is a system with little filtering, personally or institutionally, of the bad elements Wrong. It is a system that explicitly filters out the good elements. "US Court Ruling: You Can Be “Too Smart” to Be a Cop. Police department
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by otalp 8y ago
If the only presented alternative to government is private corporations how is that not much worse? The government indeed is authoritarian and people should recognise it - but at least due to historical factors the citizenry have some contr
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by otalp 8y ago
15 million views will give you around 20,000 dollars. Just on the verge of being livable but not yet. If you stop now it's very hard to regain the momentum.
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by otalp 8y ago
There's a fine line between tragedy and comedy. I like Ghostery a lot but this definitely falls on the latter.
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by otalp 8y ago
To be precise, they are having a net loss of 800 million a quarter. Their negative cash flow last quarter was over a billion. Even the biggest Tesla bulls, like Adam Jones of Morgan Stanley, expect Tesla to raise cash this year. I have not
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by otalp 8y ago
>It's generally accepted that AP2/2.5 is now in general better than AP1 Not in most forums/amongst most owners https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/83vtk8/autopil... Most tests
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by otalp 8y ago
Summary of Tesla's situation: - Tesla currently has 2.67 billion in cash. - About 1.1 billion of this is in loans that need to be returned early next year - Around 40% of their cash in hand is from refundable deposits, from people who
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by otalp 8y ago
What is the value of saving a sub-species?
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by otalp 8y ago
I doubt the really big ones would do it - and anyone moderately successful is still going to ask for like thousands of dollars. But yeah, if you have money to burn that can probably boost you - but most people don't, so it again favour
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by otalp 8y ago
Their Q1 earning report revealed they lost money on the grid service.
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by otalp 8y ago
There's a similar experience I've seen with YouTube. The first hundred subscribers(assuming you don't ask friends and family to subscribe) is always the hardest, and even if you're putting out higher quality content than
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by otalp 8y ago
Interesting that Anarchism is largely ignored despite it playing a crucial role in the 20th century as well as being to diametrically opposed to all of Fascism, Capitalism and Soviet Lennism/Stalinism. For those unaware, Gandhi's
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by otalp 8y ago
It's interesting because Marx was writing in a time where automation was considered to even more imminent than it is today. Most intellectuals of the time were of the opinion that work weeks would reduce to 20 hours in a few decades, a
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by otalp 8y ago
This does not consider the fact that only a small segment of the population is capable of being entrepreneurs - at least in tech, in the first place. In order to leave a cushy job and start a startup you must: 1)Be born in a country that&#x
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by otalp 8y ago
It's far more likely to be the opposite, at least for the next 4-5 years.
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by otalp 9y ago
Stalin probably didn't say it and the quote is usually used to highlight how the human brain cannot comprehend the devastation of a hundred deaths while it can easily feel grief for one death.
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by otalp 9y ago
Full statement: "We are very sorry for the family's loss. According to the family, Mr. Huang was well aware that Autopilot was not perfect and, specifically, he told them it was not reliable in that exact location, yet he nonethel
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Tesla issues strongest statement yet blaming driver for deadly crash(abc7news.com)
401 points by otalp 9y ago|824 comments
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by otalp 9y ago
What does Musk have to do for him to be investigated for misleading consumers or fraud?

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